I know that, though you are out of doors so many hours of the day, you really do get through a good deal of work; but other people do not give you credit for this.

Remember how your father was respected here.

Try to act always as you would have done had he been alive, and you cannot go far wrong." James had done his best, but he found it hard to get rid of his reputation for getting into mischief, and more than once, when falsely suspected, he grumbled that he might just as well have the fun of the thing, for he was sure to have the blame.
As Jim Walsham and his companions were chatting in the shade of a boat, their conversation was abruptly broken off by the sight of a figure coming along the road.

It was a tall figure, with a stiff military bearing.

He was pushing before him a large box, mounted on a framework supported by four wheels.